Mexico City (part 3) - Oct 23

Was a very cultural day today .. went and checked out some of Diego Rivera´s murals, which were conveniently next door to the hostel. I quite liked them .. they reminded me a lot of Reg Mombasa´s art work with Mambo .. I am guessing he was highly influenced by Diego.

Then it was off to see some work from Diego´s wife - Frida Kahlo. She sounds like she had a really hard life and her paintings are quite tortured and surreal. The area of town the house was in had lots of leafy streets and hip restaurants and cafes .. really relaxing and quiet, but I guess you could have been anywhere.

To cap it off we headed to the Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling), which was very surreal and fun .. we even got to meet ´Delta´ one of the stars of the show. The crowd were getting into it .. one woman sitting in front of us was yelling all sorts of abuse, which the surrounding mexican crowd thought was hilarious .. too quick for me to translate but I heard her say something about grandparents at one point.

Most of them wear masks but apparently to be de-masked is a bit of an event .. there was one unmasking but the guy covered his face the whole time so I guess he got away with it. Then to walk off the stage one of the managers gave him his coat to cover his face.

The Wo and I getting attacked by "Delta"

And yes .. there was one midget wrestler .. I saw him to some kicking to a guy on the ground but for he mostly played a small part in proceedings (pun intended).